Sports Joe
Is there even anything left to sell?
Barcelona have sold off another part of the themselves in order to register their new signings in time for the start of the LaLiga season and ease their financial woes.
The Catalan club have announced that they have sold 24.5 per cent of Barça Studios to Orpheus Media for a total of €100m in the hope that all seven players will be registered for their season curtain raiser against Rayo Vallecano on Saturday.
Andreas Christensen, Franck Kessié, Robert Lewandowski, Raphinha, Jules Koundé, Sergi Roberto and Ousmane Dembélé are all yet to be signed up and can’t until Barça meet the league’s rules on wages.
This is the fourth ‘economic lever’ the club have activated this summer after previously selling 24.5 per cent of Barça Studios to Socios.com and vended 25 per cent of their domestic television rights to Sixth Street for 25 years in two separate deals worth over €500m.
Even with these big-money sales, they still may not be able to register their new signings, with LaLiga set to review the documents to see if they can be added to the squad…
